How To Use Roman legion In A Sentence
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Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
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The Roman legions brought peace and prosperity, at least most of the time.
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Garlic reportedly gave strength to the pyramid builders and courage to the Roman legions.
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The Latin word imperator referred not only to a civilian ruler who interpreted and carried out the law but also to a victorious commander of one or more Roman legions.
The Great Experiment
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Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
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It would be like the old cartoon Dino-Riders but with the roman legion, and ballistae and mangonels, in place of weird alien humans and lasers.
Your Creation Museum Report « Whatever
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It is customary at such times for them to stand as one, arms linked like Roman legions in a square.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a strange shriek, a sound soon to be as celebrated as the alalagmos, the war cry of the Roman legions.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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Thus it was Titus who commanded the Roman legions during the famous sack of Jerusalem.
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That is, they referred to the Roman fasces, which had been the symbol of the Roman legions, marching out to war, and called this ‘Fascism’; but it was actually Synarchism from France.
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When on campaign the Roman legions used pack animals to transport the ten-man tents used by the legionnaires and spare missiles for the archers, slingers, and catapults.
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The Gallic charge complete with battle cries was famous, but the discipline of the Roman legions was more effective.
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The Roman legions came from all over the world: the centurion could have belonged to any of a dozen faiths.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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The scholar suddenly transferred his affections from the Greeks 'phalanx to the Roman legions and began with the first verse of Virgil's "Æneid.
The Last Shot
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Roman legionnaires, for example, were not radically different in their equipment from the soldiers of Assyria a millennium before.
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Originally a staple for the Roman Legions and in sea-faring cities like Genoa and Venice, pane biscotto was "bread, twice-cooked".
Examiner California Headlines
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These werent as battleworthy as the equipment of Roman legions but they were a major step up from kitchen utensils.
The Spartacus War
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The ‘Anglian Tower’ is a small stone tower in the north-west wall of the Roman legionary fortress at York.
Archive 2010-09-01
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Alongside the ghost cruise and the many ghost walks, tours of the cellar have started at the Treasurer's House, where Harry Martindale famously saw the Roman legionnaires.
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Then the Roman legionaries swept away the smoking ashes and sowed the land with salt to prevent anything from ever growing there again.
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Do you think Roman legionaries whined about such things?
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The name annuity dates back to Roman legionnaires who were paid an annual pension when they retired from the army.
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sweeping by," in gorgeous paludaments, Paulus or Marius, girt round by a company of centurions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear, and followed by the _alalagmos_ of the Roman legions.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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His new book, Walking through Scotland's History, examines pedestrianism from Roman Legions to travelling folk, via missionaries and Jacobites.
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They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw.
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It demonstrated the superiority of the more flexible Roman legion over the Hellenistic pike phalanx.
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There are a few idle sketches, including a rude caricature of a Roman legionnaire, but as you advance you begin to see signs of pre-historic painting along the walls.
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It is customary at such times for them to stand as one, arms linked like Roman legions in a square.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such is the inscription on this _milliare_, which our industrious antiquaries seem faithfully to have extracted from among the ruins of time and the injuries of accident; an object, which exhibits a curious instance of the civilization introduced by the Roman arms into this island; for the erection of marks to denote the distance from place to place, is an accommodation, at least to the travelling stranger, which unpolished nations never devised; and which the inhabitants of Britain never generally enjoyed from the final departure of the Roman legions, till the last century, when mile-stones were again erected along our principal turnpike roads.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers
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But where the Germans had formerly been incorporated into Roman legions under Roman generals, Valentinian let the Goths keep their own leaders and their own command structure, fighting as foederati — allies rather than citizens.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
